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Analysis of skeletal remains belonging to a man who died 5,000 years ago has revealed that he was the world’s earliest plague victim found thus far. The man, who has been named RV 2039, was a hunter-gatherer who died when he was between 20 and 30 years of age and was buried close to the Baltic Sea in Latvia. While there were four people whose remains were excavated from the area, it is believed that RV 2039 was the only one who suffered from the disease.
By analyzing the man’s teeth and bones as well as sequencing his DNA, experts found that he suffered from the plague’s bacteria that was probably connected to a lineage that evolved about 7,000 years ago shortly after the bacterium
Oldest Plague Victim Ever Found To Be 5000 Years Old
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The plague has been one of the deadliest epidemics to hit the surface of the earth. It caused numerous deaths and several medical complications among people years ago. Ever since the era of plague has always been considered a dark one in the history of medicine. Scientists have discovered an unknown and quite astonishing fact about the plague recently.
They have unearthed the skeleton of a 5000-year-old hunter and a strain of plague is found in his body. Earlier, it was believed that the origin of plague lied 3000 years ago but this revelation has dragged it back by 2000 years. The bacterium is called Yersina Pestis that caused the plague. Archaeologists believe that the date discovered now is most probably the date when the bacterium evolved initially. The research is based in the University of Kiel from Germany.
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